U+1F628 "😨" Fearful Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
😨
U+1F628 "😨" Fearful Face is an expressive emoji depicting a pale blue or gray face with wide, staring eyes, raised eyebrows, and an open mouth shaped like a small circle, conveying a state of shock, fright, or intense anxiety. Commonly used to represent a sudden scare, nervousness, or being taken aback by disturbing news, this character belongs to the Emoticons block and was officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. Its design evokes a classic cartoon expression of fear, making it a versatile tool in digital communication for emphasizing moments of alarm or disbelief.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F628 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Fearful Face |
| Block | Emoticons |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 😨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 😨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDE28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F628 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\ude28 |